The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 138, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1960 Page: 3 of 12
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Thursday, February 18, 1960 THK IEVELLAND DAILY SUN NEWS, Levellsmd, Texas -Section A
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MARTIN LUTHER KING
Negro leader charged
with lying about tax
ATLANTA, Ga. CAPt-The Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., frequent
storm center in Negro attempts to
knock down Southern racial bar-
riers, today is under an Alabama
charge of lying about his state
income tax returns.
He characterized the Montgom-
ery County perjury indictment aj
part of a pattern “to misrepresent
and seek to frustrate the move of
persons working to achieve the
ideal of freedom and brother-
hood.” The Negro minister denied
the charge as he posted $2,000
bond Wednesday.
“I have always made the most
painstaking effort to give An hon-
est and accurate return of my in-
come,” said King, who moved
here recently from Montgomery
to intansify his passive resistance
movement against segregation.
Circuit Solicitor (prosecutor)
William Thetford said in Mont-
gomery that King was charged
with lying about failure to report
531,000 in personal income during
1956 and 1958.
King’s salary as paster of the
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in
the Alabama city was $5,000 a
year.
Thetford declined to comment
on the grand jury's investigation
of the finances of the Montgomery
Improvement Assn., the organiza-
tion King founded and used to
combat segregation. The associa-
tion’s mass boycott against Mont-
gomery city buses led to a 1956
Supreme Court order outlawing
bus segregation.
Fulton Superior Court Judge
Jeptha Tanksley set March 18 for
an extradition hearing for King.
He has 30 days to decide whether
to fight extradition.
Claiming it “highly improbable
to get a fair hearing in Alabama,”
Kinj: said he is willing to have a
group of distinguished citizens
“gp over all my books and make
a report.” He said he would ask
such persons as former Sen, Her-
bert Lehman of New York, the
deans of the Harvard University
law and divinity schools and the
presidents of the National Cpuncil
of Churches of Christ and the
Southern Baptist Convention to
serve on such a group.
King was arrested at the Ebe-
nezer Baptist Church, where he
has been co-pastor with his fa-
ther since moving back here early
this month. He is a native of
Atlanta.
The Rev. Uriah Fields, former
fellow official with King in the
MIA and now head of a rival
Negro organization, appeared be-
fore the Montgomery County
grand jury recently. He has
charged that King mishandled
contributions to the MIA.
The MIA said in a statement
backing King that “his handling
of any funds that came to his
hands was always with the utmost
care, accuracy and responsibili-
ty.”
Musical program
given at meeting
of Matrons club
A musical program by the pup-
ils of Mrs. Henry Lucke was pre-
sented at the meeting of the Ma-
trons Study Club Tuesday evening.
Feb. 16, in the home of Mrs. Rosine
Rawson, 109 11th Street.
Pupils participating on the pro-
gram were Anita Rawson, Kay
Keeling, Abbie Rose Drinkard, Jer-
ry Curry, Carolyn Thompson and
Dcnna Whitener.
Mrs. Eva McDowell presided ov-
er the business meeting and read
an article from the “Club Wom-
an” concerning the need for nurses
in Texas and the United States.
The hostess served a refresh-
Teen-age girl to return to stand
to testify against Finch, Carole
t XI
By DIAL TORGERSON
LOS ANGELES (API — The
slim, teen-age girl whose head he
once smashed against a garage
wall returns to the witness stand
today to testify again against Dr.
R. Bernard Finch.
Marie Anne Lidholm, Swedish
maid in the doctor’s home, was
the state’s first major witness
against him. She is being recalled
by the prosecution for rebuttal
testimony as the 11-Week-old trial
nears an end.
The 42-year-old society surgeon
and his shapely mistress, Carole
Tregoff, 23, are accused of mur-
dering his wife, Barbara Jean, 36,
late last July 18.
The only person who saw Dr.
Finch at the home that night—
except for Carole and Mrs. Finch
—was Miss Lidholm.
The 19-year-old blonde said she
heard her mistress scream and
ran to the garage. The doctor
smashed her head into the wall
so hard he made a hole in the
plasterboard, she said.
Dr. Finch testified he feared
Marie Anne might be armed—
and that he knocked her almost
unconscious to protect himself.
Soon afterward, he said, Mrs.
Finch ran from the garage with
a gun she had pulled from her
car when he and Carole met her.
He said Mrs. Finch was ac-
cidentally shot when he caught
her, wrenched the gun rrom her
ment plate of salted nuts, coffee
and cherry tarts topped with ice
cream to the following members:
Mmes. Ruth Black, Ella Mae Cur-
ry, Delilah Harral, Mamie Home,
Birdie Lee Lowrance, Laura Mar-
com, McDowell, Virginia Nelson.
Ruth Belle Nipper, Jewel Pool,
Orena Speed, Marie Stockard, Flor-
ence Sullender, Marjorie Willmon,
Inez Witte and Edith Dodson.
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hand, and it discharged as he
sought to throw It away.
Carole’s testimony backed up
the doctor’s. She said she ran
from the garage soon after Mrs.
Finch pulled the gun, and before
Marie Anne reached the scene.
, With only a few more witnesses
to be heard, the sensational trial
is moving near its climax. Final
arguments are expected to start
Friday or Tuesday. They probably
will take several days.
The court was closed Wednes-
day, awaiting arrival of witnesses
from out of town. There will be
no sesskn Monday because of
Washington's Birthday.
ONLY THREAD OF CHANCE LEFT FOR CHESSMAN
Court vote change last Hope
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Con-
demned Caryl Chessman’s last
thread of hope, stretched perilous-
ly thin after nearly 12 years of
tenacious legal battling, suspends
today from an effort to switch one
vote.
That is the vote of at least one
member of the California Su-
preme Court majority. Wednesday
the court—after a series of rapid-
fire developments — decided 4-3
against recommending clemency
for the death row ccfivlct-author.
Chessman is slated to die in the
green-painted gas chamber at San
Quentin at 10 a.m. Friday. He was
convicted in 1948 of kidnaping with
bodily harm, robbery and sexual
abuse in Los Angeles,
California Gov. Edmund G.
Brown, at sundown Wednesday,
noted he cannfct grant clemency
unless the Supreme Court recom-
mends. The law puts this restric-
tion on granting mercy to men
convicted previously of felony.
Brown said any further action an
his part depended on what hap-
pened in Chessman's move today
for reconsideration of the 4-3 vote.
The oonvict’s attorney, George
T. Davis, said his petition for re-
consideration would be accompa-
nied by a request for a hearing
on a complete brief supporting the
action.
Davis said Wednesday night.
after the U.S. Supreme Court, the
California Supreme Court and the
governor acted or commented on
the case, that he didn’t have a
chance to be heard on the 11th
hour clemency appeal.
In Sacramento, Governor Brown
issued a statement saying he was
constitutionally bound to abide by
garding clemency. As to a re-
prieve. — or postponement of Fri-
day’s execution, Brown said he
would not anticipate the court’s
decision on the motion for recon-
sideration.
Thus, 24 hours before the crucial
time, Chessman’s fate still was
in doubt.
At a San Quentin news confer-
ence Wednesday the 38-yearclC
hawk-faced Chessman expressed
belief his 12-Vear court struggle
“is all over.”
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opponent of ■ capital punishment.
But on previous appeals in Cham'
man’s behalf, he noted that th*
evidence of guilt was “overwhelm,
ing” and also that Chessman new*
er had indicated remorse.
Chessman steadfastly has insist,
ed on his innocence, and he did
so again. He said that’s why he
never has asked fee clemency, but
for a full pardon. He messaged
Brown “fc do whatever your con-
science dictates.” .-
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Brewer, Orlin. The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 138, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1960, newspaper, February 18, 1960; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1129981/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.